The Findlay Jeffersonian, 1872-05-24

There was a greet tim. over Duck Fanahaw when Le iliut. 1 1 3 was a rcpresentauro ciliz'u. He bad "killed Lia tnaD not in his own quarreJ.it is true, liu' i t the l;feriae of a stranger h jset hv n t-uiitT-t. He bad kept a eurrituo't k I n. He had been tbe proprii t r .if n tlashin.' help- mecc, wuom lie c luiii tm, tiMcarded itliout the fortnalitr of a divorce. lie in.d Leld a high jiositiou iu tbe Ore department, and ieu a verj Warwick ia po'itics. When ! o died there was a great hmeatrtion through out tne town, but ctpeciallv in the vast bottom stratum of society. Un the Intiueet it wis shown that Back Kanshaw, ia tbe delirium ol a wastingi typhoid fever, L1 taken arsenic, abet himself through the body. cut nis inroat, acdjumpct! o-.ttoi a:our etory window and Ira' e Lia neck; and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but wtib 1 iteihgence nnblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by t:ie visitation of God." What could t'le world do without juries,? I'rodigiouj preparation were made (or the funeral. AU Ui ) vehicles in the town wero hired, all the saloons were in mourning, all t'ie municipal and Gre company iligs were hung at half mast, and all tho firemen ordered to muster in uniform and bring their machines duly draped in b ack. Regretful resolutions were passed and various committees appointed, among others, a committee of one was appointed to call on a minister fragile, gentle, spiritual new fledz- ling from an Eastern theological semi- nary, and as yet nnacquaiuted with tLe ways of the mines. The commit tee-man, Scotty" Briggs, made his isit. Baing admitted.-to his presence, he sat down before the clergyman, plac placed - ed placed his fire hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minis- e: s nose, took from it a red silk Laad- kerchief, wiped his brow, and- heaved sigh of dismal irapressivencss ex planalory of his business. lie choked and even shed tear, Lut with antfl.irt be mastered his voice, and said, in lugubrious tones : "Are you the duck that runs the gospel-mill next door? ' "I am the pardon ma. I believe I do not understand ?'' With another sigU a i l a half sub. Scotty re-joined. Why, you s?e we are in a Lit of trouble, and the boys thought may be you'd give as a lift, it we'd tackle yen, that is, if l ve got the rights of and you are the head clerk ot ths doxology works next door." "I am the shepherd in charge of the flock whose told is next door." "The which?"' ''The rpirituai a Ivuer of tuo little ccropjny of brlievtrs waosc sanctuary adjoins these premises.' " Scotty scratched his head, reflected moment, and then said : "You rather hold over me, pard reckon I can't call thu Inn l. Ante and pass the buck.'' "IIow ? I beg your pardon. TV hat did I understand you to aay ?" Well, you've rather got the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got tbe bulge, somehow. You don't smoke me and I don t smoke you. 1 ou see, one of the boys has passed in his checks, and we want to give him a good send-cft, and so the Hung I am now on it to rout out somebody to erk a little chin-music for us, and waltz him through handsome.'' "My fne&w 1 seem to grow more and more bewildered. Your observa tion are wholly incomprehensible to me. Cannot you simplify them some way ? At fir6t I thought perhaps I understood you, but now I grope. Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yourself to categorical statements of fact unincumbered with obstructinf accumulations of meta phor and allegory ?" Another pause, an I more retneuon. Then Scotty said : I 11 have to pa38, 1 jutige- "How ? "You've raised me out, pard.'' "I still fail to catch your meaning." "Why, that last lead of yourn is too many for me tbat s tbe idea, l can't neither trump nor follow suit.'' The clergyman sank back in his chair perplexed. Scot'y leaned his head on his band, and gave himself np to reflection. i Presently bis face came up, sorrow ful, but confident. "I've got it now, so s you cavy,r said he. "What we want i3 a gospel sharp. See ?'' "A what r" "Gospel sharp, parson.'' "Oh ! Why didn't you say so bo- fore ? I am a clergyman a parson." Now you Ulk! You see my blind, and stradd'e it like a man. Put it there !" extending a brawny paw, which closed over the minister s small hand and gave it a shake indic ative oi iraternal sympathy and fer fervent - vent fervent gratification. 'Now we re all right pard. Lot a start frebh. Don't you mind me snotling a nine, beenz we re in a power ot trouble, l ou see one of the do j s bas gone up the flume " "Gone where ?" "Up tli3 flume throw'J up the sponge, you know." "l nrown up tbe sponge i ' "Yes kicked tho bucket" "Ah f fiaa rlsnartait flinf ir.vota rions conntry from whose bonrn no travelet returns." "Returns?" Well, I reckon nof Why pard, he's dead." " l es, I understand." "Oh, you do? Well, I thought maybe you might be getiiag tangled once more, les, you see he'd dead again ' "Again I Has he ever beu dead before ?' "Dead before ? No. Do you reck on a man has got as many lives as a cat? But you bet, he's awful dead now, poor old boy, and I wish I'd never seen this day. I don't know no better friend than Buck Fan Fan-shaw. - shaw. Fan-shaw. I know'd him bv the back : and when I know a man like him you bear me. Take him all around, pard, there never was a bullier man in the mines. No man ever knowed Buck Fansbaw go back on a lriend. But it's all up. It ain't no use. They've scooped him !' 'cooped him ?" "Yes death bas. Well, well, well, we've got to give him up. Yes, in deed. It's a kind of hard world. after all, ain't it ? But, pard, he was a rustler. You ought to see him get started once. lie was a bully bov with a glass eye) Jnst sdU in his lace ana give mm room according to his strength, and it was just beautiful to see him peel and go in. He was the worst eon of a thief that ever draw'd breath. Pard, he was on it. He was on it bigger than an iniun P -ua ii r ua wnatr" "On the shoot. On the shoulder, On tbe fiRht. Understand? lie didn t give a continental for anv body. Beg your pardon, lriend, for coming so near saying a cuss word word-but - but word-but you see I'm on an awful strain in A It ail od ud six so-so. a a

ilh palaver, on account of having to Lias aown and draw everything so mile. Eat we've got to give liim up inere ain't any getting aromd 'hat, l recion. Now, if wo can't get y to help pUnt him " 1 reach the funeral iHsccurae? Assist at the obsequies ?" "Obs'quiea is good. Yes. That's It; that's r:nr btlle cirne. We are D . going to get np the thing regirdless, yon know, lie was al ways tilty him elf, and S'i 3 ou bet you his funertd ain't goin' to bo no slouch; solid silver doorpiate on his coffin, six plumes on the hearse, aad a nigger on the box with a biled thirt and a plug hai how's that for high? And we'd take care cf yon, pard. We'll fix you all right There will be a kerridge lor you; and whatever you want you just 'scspe out and we'll tend to it. We've got a shebang fixed up for vou to stand behind, in No. l's house, and don't sell a clam. Put Buck through as bully as vol can, pard, for anybody that know'd bim will tell you that lie was one of the whitest men that was ever in the mines, ifou can t draw it too etrorxr. He never could aland it to ace things going wrong. He a done more to make this town peaceable than any man in it. I've seen him lick four Greasers in eleven minutes. mself. If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't the man to go browsing around alter somebody to do it, he would prance in and Tegulate it himseil, He warn't a Catholic ; but it didn't make no difference about tbat when it came down to what a man's richi was and so, wiien como roughs jumped the Catholic boneyard and started in to stake out town lots in it, he went for 'em ! And ho cleaned 'em, too! I was there and seen it myself. I bat was very welL indeed at least the impulse was whether the ct was strictly defensible or not. Hal deceased any religious convic tions ? Tbat is to say; did he feel a dependence upon, or acknowledge allegiance to a higher power ?" More reflection. "I reckon you've stamped me again, pard. Could you siy It over once more, and say it slow ?" "well, to simplify it somewhat, waihe, or rather had he ever been ocnectcd with any organization sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to self-sacrifice in tbe interest of nrorality ?! "All down but nine set 'em op on the other alley, pard "What did I understand you to eay?'' "Why you're most too many for mr, you know. When you get in witti your left, I hunt gras every time." " "How? Begin again ?" "That's it." "Very well. Was ho a good man, aad-" "There see that; don't put up another chip till I look at my hand. good man, ssys you? Pard, it ain't no name for it. He was the best man that ever pard, you would have doted on tbat man. He could lam any galoot of his inchns in America. was him tbat put down the riot last election before it got a start ; and everybody said that he was the only man tbat could nave done it. lie waltcKiin wtth a trumpet in one hand arid asoanuer in tho nih tVw r topn mpn hnmfl cm a ahnttor in 1iq I than three minutes. He had the riot broken up and prevented Lice be fore anybody ever got a chance to striko a blow. "He was always for psace, tnd he would have peace he could not stand disturbances. Pard he was a great loss to this town. It would please the boys if you could chip in some something - thing something like tbat and do him justice. He once, when tne ducks got to throwing stones through the Meth is' Sunday school windows, Buck Fanshaw, all of bis own notion, shut bis saloon, and took a couple of shooters and mounted guard over the Sunday school, bays he "No Irish need apply !'' And they did't He waj the bulliest man in the moun tains, pard, he could run faster, jump bigbcr, swear naraer, ana uoiu more tangle-loot whiskey without spilling, than any man in seventeen counties. Put that in pard; it'll please the boys more than anything you could say. And you can say, pard, that be never shook his mother.'' Never 6hook his mother ?' "That's it any of the boys will tell you so." "Well, but why should he shake her." "That's what I say but some people dors.' "Not people oi any repute r r-Well, - Well, r-Well, some that average pretty "In mv opinion a man that would offer personal violence to his mother ought to "Cheese is pard; you've booked vour ball clean outside ol the string. . . . j.,n;n . .v. if. Wnat 1 was uiniu nas mat ne never threwed of on his mother don't you see ? No, indeed. He give her house to nve m, auu town lots, and plenty of money ; and he looked after her and took care of her all the time ; and, whes she was down with the small pox, he set up nights and nuss nuss-ed - ed nuss-ed her jimself. I thick you're a square mt, Pard- 1 like you, and I'll lick any nn that don't. I'll lick him till he csa't tell himself from a last year' corpse! Pus it there." Another fraternal hand-shake and PTl't 1 Tbe obsequies were all that "the hnvs" could desire. Such marvel of funertl pdmp had never been seen in Tirgini City. The plumed hearse, the dirge-beating brass-bands, the closes marts cf business, the flags droDPiog t half mast, Ihe longpiod- in n procession of uniformed secret societies, military b&tUlions, and lire Romnsmes, draped engines, carriages ol otilci&ta and citizens in vehicles and on foos attracted multitudes of spec tators to the side walk.rools, windows; and for years afterward, the desree nf ersndeur attained by any civic die . it: t tj play D ' rginia i;uy was neiermineu by comparison with Buck Fanshaw's funeral- it!. . i . at it ot be at f

On-J of ihu ixiODt important lis lis-coveiiei - coveiiei lis-coveiiei of tiii century is the vulcan vulcanizing - izing vulcanizing ot cacutc!iouc--i. e , the pro profess - fess profess iv which it is rendered insensible to it ild snd heat. Previous lo 1S13, ai Summer or Winter weather pre prevailed, - vailed, prevailed, India rubber fabrics stiffened or melted. This susceptibility had been the great hinderance to their use. Some half dozen inventors on this and the other side ot the Atlantic bad been experimenting upon this difficulty for several yeais. Charles Goodyear at last stumbled upon the secret. Over his little stove, in an attic chamber oi an indifferent house in New Haven, he had melted the gum in a kettle slimed with brim stone. It showed no chanse in cool ing. Beyond alteration In form, the material appeared the same. It was elastic, dark in color, odorous as at first, tasteless, yielding to the touch, and unaltered in specific gravity. Apparently, it had suffered no alter ation in a single one of i'a qualities And yet it had become another thing Heat could not melt nor frost stiffen the near materials It waa no longer irregular tn elasticity. All stickiness was gone. The grand discovery had. in fact, been made, that Caoutchouc gum, raised to a high temperature by beat, and exposed to the fumes of brimstone, became vulcanized Elated with euccess, Goodyear, first protecting Lis invention In the United States by caveats and patents, started for kagland. Among the British experimenters upon India rubher was Caarles Han Hancock. - cock. Hancock. To him proceeded our invent or. Secure in the safety of his secret, instead of covering it by an English patent, he endeavored to sell it. named his price and leaving his sam samples - ples samples fearlessly in Hancock's labora tory, preceeded north. Scarcely was he out of sight when furnace and blow-pipe, retort and crucible, chem icals and gases, were put to work. The specimens of the new invention defied analysis. There they were, undeniably genuine caoutchouc, elas tic beyond the native gum, inodorous, of natural color, sof; and ductile in every respect exactly the substance upon which Hancock bad been ex periraenling for years, and yet divest divested - ed divested of the element tb&t hindered all practical progress. They were no longer plastic Tbe most intense heat would net melt nor the severest frost stiffen them. They would neither stick when exposed to the heat ol the low iite nor harden under exposure to ttie severest artifi cial cold. Foiled in his chemical efforts to solve the mystery, and yet reluctant to pay tbe price xlU.UUU sterling demanded by Goodyear for bis secret, lisncocsc DctooR nimseii to his study. Between him and his competitor there had neen letters exchanged for years. They treated of the subject kindred in interest to them both. He now consulted these letters, compared the process described, col lated the results arrived at, noted the progress made from the begin ning, and arrived at the point where both Goodyear and himself bad been baflled, set himself to reflection. It was the old story of Pythagoras and tbe forty-fifth problem of Euclid, or Archimedes and specific gravity, or Cornelias Drebel and tbe rett lye of Go-lin tapestry. Hancock guessed eulohur. Tbe experiment was tried. Failing once and again, he caused his furnaces to be brought to their highest jwwer, when at the tem temperature - perature temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit, India-rubber gum, submitted to the fumes of brimstone, became vulcan vulcanized - ized vulcanized caoutchouc Lon g before Good Goodyear - year Goodyear returned from the north, Han cock had patented the discovery. It was for years a subject of lawsuits. Into the question of priority the English patent laws did not enter. Goodyear also obtained a patent, but was practically useless- For four fourteen - teen fourteen years, renewed afterward for seven years more, the exclusive use tbe discovery ot vulcanization of India-rubber, enriching its holder aud bis associates beyond millions of pounds sterling, remained with the common-sense thinker. It was real really - ly really a stolen secret, but neither craft nor fraud, but honest brains, perpe of ed ed his the and htr The ried, to life and A in of and the been have sic very

the qualified Electori ot Kayle lowmhip, Hancock Cuunty. Ohio; XTOTiCE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE following written request. signed by more Uiaa one hundred resident tax-paying elect of said township of Eagle, has been made ipon tne trustees or said ragie township. To the Trustees of Eagle Township. Uaucock Countv. Ohio: "We. Uie undersigned, resident tax-paying electors of Eagle township, Hancock county. Ohio, more than one hundred In number, re re-suecUully - suecUully re-suecUully reuuest that you construct a rail road from a point on the north tine of said eagle-ownstup, where tne Lake r.ne anu Louvtlle railroad bed crosses said north line, thence in a southwestern direction to a point where said railroad bed crosses the west line satd Eagle township, and there terminate. li termini ueing in saia townsm poi migie. "Thaat yon appropriate the snm Ten Thou Thousand - sand Thousand (S10,uUU), toward the construction of said railroad, such sum not exceeding five r cent, of the assessed valuation of the real and personal' property ot said township or Eagle made. That the said amount of ten thousand dol lars be in bonds of said township of F.agle; tbat said bons shall be ordinary coupon bonds. and said bonds and the coupons thereto at attached, - tached, attached, shall be payable at the treasury of iiancoCK county, imio; tnat saia annus suaii bear Interest at tne rate ol eigtit per cent. L per first Annumi navable HSml-annnailv on the irav ofslarch ank the first dav of Beote ruber each year: tbat of said amount the sum of five nunureu aouars snail become one anu payable on the first day of March, 1874; and rive hundred dollars on the first day of Sep September, - tember, September, 1S71 ; and five hundred dollars on the first day of March, 1X75; and live hundred dol dollars - lars dollars the first day of September, 1875; and five hundred dollar on tlie first day of March, 1K7: and five hundred dollars on the first dav September, 1S7U : and five hundred dollars tne nrst uay oi marcu, ion ; auu live Hun Hundred - dred Hundred dollars on the first day of September, Ut77; and five hundred dollars on the first day March. 1X78; and five hundred dollars on the first day of September, 2878; and five hnn dred dollars on tbe first day or March, 187: and five hundred dollars on tbe first day of September, 1&7V; and five hundred dollars on the nrst day of March, 1880: and five hundred dollars on the first day of Soptember, 1N8U; and nve nunureu uonars on tne nrst oay oi iuvi . .. .1 Hi. tni.f1pAl .lnllnr,n 1 1 n first day of September, 1881 : and five hundred dollars on the first day of March, 18S2; aud five hundred dollars on tne nrst asyoi Sep September, - tember, September, 1882; and five hundred dollars on Ihe Hrvt.davoi March. 1S83: and five hundred dollars on the first day of September, 1883. "That said oouus snail oe execuieu id lire usual and ordinary manner of executing town ship bonds, by tbe trustees and clerk of said township of Eagle, and signed by them ; that imnds shall be in denominations as fol lows, to-wit, twenty rjonos numbered consec consecutively - utively consecutively from one to twenty inclusive, of five hundred aouars eacn. "That to each and every of said bonds shall atta-i d tbe usuall aud necessary interest coupons corresponding in date and number with tne uciius to wuicn tney are attacuea, which coupons shall Designed bvthe written signature of the clerk of said township ol "Thi'i yon call a meeting nf the Qualified electors of the township of Eagle, Hancock county, j';t. at tne lime anu place and in the manner provided bv law. on

daaShter ot James the Frst,thus clear clear-Pcnitentiary. - Pcnitentiary. clear-Pcnitentiary. ng the way for an alliance with the crown ot Great Bmain. The house Dnke of Hanover, and, as his fa fa-Ilo'Iand, - Ilo'Iand, fa-Ilo'Iand, ther had done, prevailed on his broth broth-houieatlhe - houieatlhe broth-houieatlhe to devote himself to celibacy. But raorganatio marriage, contracted Wlth Eleonora d' Albrense, a French Tho learned ia tho remote antiqui antiquities - ties antiquities are accustomed to say that Queen Victoria is descended from the hero Waden, of whom the Norscrnen.made a god, and who gavo bis somewhat un gracious name to our modern day Wednesday. An Italian adventurer, Azon d' Estate, engaged his sword the service of the Emperor Conrad towards the close ot tbe eleventh cen tnry, and founded the house ot Han over . by marrying Cunegnnda Guelph, a very wealthy woman. tie dr?pex his own name and was hence tortli known as uuelpu. I Heir son married the widow of the Earl ot Kent, tho brother of Edward the Confessor, and these found much favor in the eyes of Ilenry the Fourth, who took away Otho ot Saxony's Bavarian pos sessions and gave tnem to me nowiy married pair. Lucky marriage brought this enterprising family high- er, untU one of the sons married danter of Henry the second, Kin ot England, who suoceededin eettm: her father to give her husband the . . ' . . countaaips ot lrnnswicic . and iiuen Merg. I bese countships became duca ie9.u?ler Otho the Fourteenth, and William of Gnleph became a Duke. Tne Guelephs were fettered through a vaety of marriages until they came 10 Beven 8009 01 we S11 5" father ol George the First, King of KDSIand; Those sons all dukes, were MiU euuueu to a ua oi m po- 8,ons- bat m order not to 8Pat "P the family coronet the brothers made a 8oIemn compact that only one of lLem Bnoma make a lcSa marriage, Tms woul1 mae the autonomy otthe house complete, and the compact was adhered to. The sixth son was the Pne wno contracted the legal marriage, and his eldest son manned the grand- 01 "over owes 11s existence on x.n g'h soil to day to judicious "match- making.'' This sonobtained the title refugee from i,ou:s ourteentfl's ty ra?y. has always been a thorn in the side of the Hanover dynasty. A daugh- ier Dy mis marriage Decame me wire George the First, and every one remembers the story of the cruel man ner hlh "he was treated, and how her old schoolfellow who tried to de- ,wna ner WD,en 8ne nea crneuj 01 her hnsband, was asssassinated. On her deathbed she summoned her ty- -. , . ., -1 . , , . c J1 rT6. 1 u "l f'u f JM rTrr" 'c went tonna nis judge witnm wm )ar- "e morganaUc marriage Old moca 10 iUHrrw tne twasw 01 "inovcr as tne iormer arxiui aiiiauce uau uone 10 exait anu euxicu it- At the death of Kin? William the Fourth the crown was separated from that cf Great Britain, as a law prohibits wo women - men women from ascending the Hanoverian throne.